Authors : Ok Hee Koo, Young Mi Ryu and Myung Sook Kim
Abstract: This study was performed to identify the effects of ethics education on moral sensitivity and moral motivation in nursing students. This study used a one group pretest-posttest design. Freshman nursing students who took a nursing ethics course in two nursing schools were encouraged to participate. A 2-h lesson of ethics education was provided weekly for 12 weeks to the students. The lesson was composed of lecturing, watching a video clip, discussing as a team and performing case studies. Data were collected before the first lesson and 6 months after the last lesson from 200 students and 163 questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS WIN 18.0. Paired t-test was used to identify the effects of the ethics education. Moral sensitivity was increased significantly after the ethics education from 4.95±¾0.45 (Mean±¾SD)-5.13±¾0.48 (Mean±¾SD) (t = 3.356, p<0.001). Moral motivation was decreased significantly after the education from 3.51±¾0.23 (Mean±¾SD)-2.71±¾0.35 (Mean±¾SD) (t = -22.447, p<0.001). The results of sub-analysis of the moral motivation showed that nurse-client relationship domain and nurse-nursing task relationship domain tend to be utilitarianism after the education. The findings of the study showed that ethics education was effective on moral sensitivity. A variety of materials should be provided for nursing students, so that, they can experience ethical situations indirectly and can increase their moral sensitivity. It is also necessary to encourage students to participate actively in class by applying various teaching and learning methods. Nursing ethics education that emphasizes the obligatory position needs to be provided to nursing students.
Ok Hee Koo, Young Mi Ryu and Myung Sook Kim, 2018. Effects of Ethics Education on Ethical Values in Nursing Students. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 2903-2908.